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...small village which is made renowned by one of the largest schools in England, is about ten miles distant from London, and is generally called Harrow on Hill, as it is built about a small eminence. The school was founded in 1571 by "one John Lyon," a yeoman of the neighboring village of Preston, who gave the sum of twenty marks annually for the support and education of the village children. In the same year the school charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth, who approved of the statutes drawn up by Lyon; but notwithstanding the removal of all obstacles...
...government of the school was originally in the hands of six men, elected from the parish, who filled all vacancies which might occur in their number, but this monopoly ended fifteen years ago, and the government now consists of the surviving members of the old board, with six others appointed by the Lord Chancellor from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, the Royal Society, and from the masters of the school. A number of fellowships are connected with the school at various colleges, but principally at Oxford. For a long time after its foundation, classical studies were alone fursued...
...Meharry Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, in Nashville, has just graduated eight colored physicians. Thirty-five young negro men had previously been graduated from this school, and it is stated that they have been successful in their work, and have been well received and aided by the resident white physicians...
...Pauls School Boat Club are to have new boats from Waters, the boat-builder, at half price, because their boats of last year from him turned out total failures...
...Clark graduated at this school in 1832, and in the next year went to Kentucky, more than a week's journey from Boston. In this almost frontier state he spent seven years, very profitably, he said, since they taught him humanity...